.... late night thinking leads to this....
Remember how Amtrak announced it may bring back passenger service to Chicago- Toronto?
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/new-passe...lity-1.5568152
This will sort of matter in a few...
For a while, I was wondering whether Amtrak ever crossed into Mexico. So, down that rabbit hole I went. It turns out prior to 1981, there was a connection to Mexico With the Inter-American train. Prior to the 1960s, you could stay on a train to Mexico City called the Texas Eagle ran by the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific railways, as well as the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in Mexico. There is a current Texas Eagle that runs between Chicago and San Antonio daily and continues to Los Angeles 3x a week
So, what do the 2 matter? Well, if the Chicago - Toronto route was put in place by Amtrak, and if there was ever a desire to reconnect to Mexico by rail, and they used the existing Texas Eagle route, they could extend the Texas Eagle from San Antonio up to 4x a week when it does not continue to Las Angeles to Mexico City. That would mean you could ride 2 trains and get from Toronto to Mexico City.
Yeah, yea, I know, it will never happen. However, it does have me wonder whether it should happen, and why it won't.
(I shall get out of the rabbit hole.... till the next time.)